Re: UMSDOS as root
I've been trying to run UMSDOS as my root partition for the last week or so.
I posted to the debian-user list to see if anyone knew about how to make
this work, but I haven't received a reply yet.
Debian definitely doesn't support UMSDOS as root out of the box. I can get
tantalizingly close to having a working system, but odd things are
happening (like perl disappearing, or shrinking down to 24 bytes or losing its
executable status). Normally, UMSDOS has been quite robust for me, so I
suspect
that somehow when used as the root partition under Debian it has some
problems.
If you don't specifically want to run Debian (which I do), you should check
out
the IronWing distribution (do a search; I don't have the URL handy). It's
designed
to run out of a UMSDOS root partition, and it works quite well. It's a
Slackware derivative, but it knows how to handle RedHat RPMs, so you should
be able
to install what you need.
Steve
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